(1) Who is Sam Kriss? Yes, I'm old and out of touch, so Internet popular whipper-snappers are not even on my radar, since I'm too primitive to have radar 😁
(2) Tsk, tsk, kids these days, does no-one remember the old classifications? Kriss is confusing nerds with dweebs:
"Hold on there, buster, cries another voice from the interwebs. According to OkCupid’s Nerd, Geek, or Dork Test (that one’s gone now, too), these three terms are defined this way:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions."
A rough'n'ready approxmation is that geeks were on the techie side and nerds on the arts side; so LOTR, Marvel comics/movies and TV shows were the province of the nerds while 'I built this in a cave out of a box of scraps', fancy electronics and the likes were for the geeks. Dweebs and dorks? Well sorry guys, you're just clumsy, awkward weirdoes 😁
(3) And before that, geeks were side-show attractions:
"Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow. The billed performer's act consisted of a single geek, who stood in the center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. The geek shows were often used as openers for what are commonly known as freak shows. It was a matter of pride among circus and carnival professionals not to have traveled with a troupe that included geeks. Geeks were often alcoholics or drug addicts, and paid with liquor – especially during Prohibition – or with narcotics."
I'd recommend the Tyrone Power movie "Nightmare Alley" for the rise and fall of a schemer from side-show barker to fake medium to geek:
(1) Who is Sam Kriss? Yes, I'm old and out of touch, so Internet popular whipper-snappers are not even on my radar, since I'm too primitive to have radar 😁
(2) Tsk, tsk, kids these days, does no-one remember the old classifications? Kriss is confusing nerds with dweebs:
https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/are-you-a-building-science-geek-nerd-dork-or-dweeb/
"Hold on there, buster, cries another voice from the interwebs. According to OkCupid’s Nerd, Geek, or Dork Test (that one’s gone now, too), these three terms are defined this way:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions."
A rough'n'ready approxmation is that geeks were on the techie side and nerds on the arts side; so LOTR, Marvel comics/movies and TV shows were the province of the nerds while 'I built this in a cave out of a box of scraps', fancy electronics and the likes were for the geeks. Dweebs and dorks? Well sorry guys, you're just clumsy, awkward weirdoes 😁
(3) And before that, geeks were side-show attractions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_show
"Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow. The billed performer's act consisted of a single geek, who stood in the center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chickens' heads off and swallowing them. The geek shows were often used as openers for what are commonly known as freak shows. It was a matter of pride among circus and carnival professionals not to have traveled with a troupe that included geeks. Geeks were often alcoholics or drug addicts, and paid with liquor – especially during Prohibition – or with narcotics."
I'd recommend the Tyrone Power movie "Nightmare Alley" for the rise and fall of a schemer from side-show barker to fake medium to geek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMYkQqe8-I